Show HN: Key Values – Find engineering teams that share your values

Re:Show HN: Key Values – Find engineering teams that share y... by saghm on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @11:02PM (#15180882)

> In my experience, workplaces with alcohol in them tend to focus their work-related happy hours around drinking. As someone who does not drink, I often feel left out of those social activities, and am often actively shamed for not participating.

I also don't drink, and in my (relatively short) experience in the tech industry, the term "social event" almost exclusively refers to events where the primary focus is alcohol. Is this a tech-industry specific thing, or just a thing with "industry" in general?

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Re:Show HN: Key Values – Find engineering teams that share y... by LoSboccacc on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @02:37AM (#15181656)

It's an issue with mandatory fun time. I can totally see myself enjoying my time at a pub with some colleagues, but throw in the whole team plus managers/leaders and it's just four more hours of unwanted social interaction and work talk for which to survive the only focus become getting drunk as fast as possible to cut the losses.

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Re:Show HN: Key Values – Find engineering teams that share y... by azernik on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @11:08PM (#15180910)

Definitely an issue in other industries (see e.g. law), but not in all industries.

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